Records are meant to be made and broken – but not over and over for the same record with the same people. As I reported during the 2009 spring season, many records were established for youngest, fastest, etc. And for the oldest person to summit Everest, I wrote: The oldest was 76-year-old Bahadur Sherchan, from Nepal on May 26, 2008. However Japanese Yuichiro Miura (the man who skied down Everest) has now been recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records to be the oldest summitter at age 75 since Mr. Sherchan could not prove his birth date. Tamae Watanabe continue reading